I am a PhD Candidate at the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security in Berlin. I use computational methods to study online disinformation, transnational repression, and coercive power dynamics on social media. I am generally interested in studying the subtle affordances of social media for the production of rhetoric that supports state-sponsored violence. In my dissertation, I focus on pro-government actors’ use of foreign social media for limiting the transnational reach of exile and diaspora dissent. Outside of my research, I am enthusiastic about all things R and data visualization. I also strive to make space for diverse, accessible, and interdisciplinary communities in academic/professional settings.

In a past life, I was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Malaysia and happened to get a BSc in Economics and Asian Studies from Tulane University after living in New Orleans for four years.